Long Quotes

We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.

~ Constantine Karamanlis

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

~ Aldous Huxley

Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.

~ William Hurt

You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.

~ Stephan Pastis

As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

~ Leo Durocher

We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns.

~ Marie Lu

I'm thankful for performing as long as I am allowed.

~ Chuck Berry

I want to be as gracious and thankful as I can because it has been a long road.

~ Maren Morris

I'm thankful that I was able to have a long, healthy career for the most part.

~ Scottie Pippen

I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.

~ Ralph Stanley

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

~ Ronald Reagan

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

~ Mikhail Bakunin

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

~ Jonathan Kozol

The natives of Silicon Valley learned long ago that when you share your knowledge with someone else, one plus one usually equals three. You both learn each other's ideas, and you come up with new ones.

~ Vivek Wadhwa

The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

~ Fabiola Gianotti

The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

~ Edward Tufte

What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives.

~ Gore Vidal

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

~ Quentin Tarantino

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

~ George Eliot

We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.

~ Rita Rudner

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

~ Bob Riley

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

~ Alan Gregg

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

~ Miguel De Cervantes

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

~ Marilyn Monroe

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

I've definitely had the experience where I was pursuing someone for a long time that I just obviously did not connect with, so I was always, kind of altering myself for her, But then you realize it's just not worth it. What's the point?

~ Logan Lerman

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

~ Roger Ascham

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

~ Jonah Goldberg

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

~ Helen Keller

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

~ Edvard Munch

I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

~ Edmund Hillary

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

~ Britney Spears

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

~ Thomas Jefferson

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

~ Louise Brown

I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.

~ Jim Webb

You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.

~ Azim Premji

So long as the global economy continues to recover, that remains Obama's No. 1 claim to successful leadership. Nothing else even comes close.

~ Thomas P.m. Barnett

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

~ Pat Riley

I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.

~ Vanessa Hudgens